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"I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what's going to happen next, so you always have to be ready for anything, ready to improvise, determined to win no matter what. I'm also making you miserable."
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"Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why."

"Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive."

"The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don't straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?"

"An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves."

"There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward."

"The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God."

"Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted."

"If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush."

"People should not expect to eat if they did not work."
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"But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom."

"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."

"The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible."

"Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing."

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him."

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
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